Posted on 08/13/2023 10:31:58 AM PDT by george76
Stepping into the van guarded by armed soldiers with five surgeons and nurses, Zheng Zhi didn’t know he was entering into a world that would haunt him for the next quarter of a century.
Dr. Zheng, then a resident doctor at one of China’s largest military hospitals, knew little more than they were on a “secret military mission” near a military prison located around the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian.
A light blue fabric covered the four sides of the vehicle, shielding it from any curious glances.
When the door opened, four burly soldiers carried in a man whose limbs were bound with thin ropes that had cut deeply into his flesh. The man was no more than 18 years old; his organs, the surgical crew had been told the day before, were “healthy, fresh.”
A doctor instructed Dr. Zheng to “step on” the man’s legs and “don’t let him move.” He pressed the man's legs down with his hands and to his shock, they were warm to the touch. Blood was now flowing from the man’s throat.
He watched a doctor slice open the man’s stomach and two others reach in to remove a kidney each. The man’s legs twitched and his throat moved—although no sound came out.
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“Cut his artery and veins, quick!” a doctor told Dr. Zheng. As he did so, so much blood gushed out that it splashed all over Dr. Zheng’s gown and gloves. That was when he got the order to extract the man’s eyes.
Dr. Zheng looked at the man’s face. Staring back at him was a pair of wide-open eyes.
"It was horrifying beyond words. He was looking right at me. His eyelids were moving. He was alive," Dr. Zheng recounted to The Epoch Times in July, the first time he agreed to use his real name to recount his story.
But, in the van in 1994, little did he know he was party to what would soon become an industrialized killing apparatus set up to extract organs from prisoners of conscience and sell them on demand.
In the van, he told the other doctors, “I can’t do this.” He felt his brain empty out as he sat there, shaky, sweating, and paralyzed.
The doctor across from him immediately pressed the man’s head to the floor of the van. With two fingers pressed on the eyelids and a hemostat in another hand, the doctor clamped out each of the man's eyes.
The body, now motionless, was placed in a black plastic bag and taken away by soldiers waiting outside. The van sped back to the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, where Dr. Zheng did his residency. The nurses quickly gathered up the bloodied medical equipment.
Lights were on in two operation rooms when they reached the hospital. Another team of doctors was waiting to begin the organ transplantations.
Dr. Zheng was too sickened to be useful, even though the department director wanted him to get his hand in at the operating table. He sat watching from a few yards away as the surgery progressed. When the transplant operations were complete, the medical staff went into an upscale restaurant and feasted in silence, although Dr. Zheng said he couldn’t take a bite. After the meal, he took leave, developing a high fever at the same time.
That pair of eyes—desperate, fearful, and pained—has since tormented Dr. Zheng day and night.
"Under the light lay a young life, a fellow human being, whose organs were being harvested while he was alive," he said.
Billion Dollar Industry..
The horror Dr. Zheng witnessed in the van, and afterward at the hospital, took place in 1994, when the Chinese regime’s mass-scale, state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting was still in its infancy.
It soon ballooned into a billion-dollar industry, using prisoners of conscience, particularly adherents of the persecuted faith group Falun Gong, to fuel its rise. In the same city as the hospital was the Sujiatun concentration camp, which multiple whistleblowers revealed as a mass killing ground of imprisoned Falun Gong adherents for their organs since the persecution began in 1999. While the Sujiatun underground facility was abandoned after being exposed internationally, an untold number of other such camps exist in China.
Dr. Zheng is one of several witnesses who have come forward to The Epoch Times since 2006 to expose the regime’s grisly practice.
In 2019, a London-based independent tribunal concluded that China’s ruling regime killed prisoners of conscience for their organs “on a significant scale," and that Falun Gong practitioners are the primary victims.
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U.S. lawmakers have taken steps to prevent Americans from embarking on "transplant tourism" to China, and thus becoming complicit.
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) is pushing for the passage of his Falun Gong Protection Act, which would sanction persecutors of Falun Gong. The bill would also ban cooperation with communist China in the organ transplantation field.
The bipartisan Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023, which seeks to punish enablers of the abuse, passed overwhelmingly in the House in March.
In June, Texas adopted the country’s first law to counter the issue, banning health insurers from financing organ transplant surgeries linked to China.
'A Fresh One'..
Fear still had a grip on Dr. Zheng as he slowly recounted his story for the first time in 2015, using an alias. During the hours-long interview, he struggled to utter a complete sentence; sometimes with his two hands held tightly to the edge of the table in front of him, other times fidgeting, standing up, and sitting down. His facial expression was contorted as he kept repeating that it was “too horrifying.” Tears filled Dr. Zheng’s eyes as he described in a trembling voice the removal of the young man's eyes.
During his residency at the hospital, Dr. Zheng was favored by his superiors, thanks to his father’s influence in the local communist power circle. A skilled doctor in traditional Chinese medicine, his father was sought by local officials. Some of the top military leaders were frequent guests at his family's dining table. Knowing this, doctors treated Dr. Zheng deferentially, frequently allowing him to participate in surgeries when other interns couldn’t.
Soon after the organ extraction in the back of the van, Dr. Zheng left the hospital. He became a pediatrician and internist in the city of Liaoyang, some four hours drive north of Dalian. But that sense of horror only deepened over time as he glimpsed more from behind the scenes.
In 2002, Dr. Zheng accompanied a military official for his medical checkup, at the hospital where he once interned. The doctor told the official that he needed a new kidney to live.
“[We’ll] pick a top-quality one for you,” another military officer told his superior in the hallway. “A fresh one, from Falun Gong practitioners.”
That was the first time Dr. Zheng heard that Falun Gong adherents were a specific organ source.
On the way home, the official asked Dr. Zheng whether he should get a kidney transplant.
“Don’t do it,” Dr. Zheng replied. “Isn’t that committing a murder?”
It was through that official that Dr. Zheng learned how widespread forced organ harvesting was in China.
“Armed police and officials above division ranks all know about it, and it’s pretty much known throughout the military. It’s nothing novel,” Dr. Zheng told The Epoch Times.
To make more money, he said, the military had opened many “green passages,” or fast lanes at airports, to quickly transport fresh human organs across the country. The infectious disease units at military hospitals had all become “dens” for forced organ harvesting, he said.
“In about one to two weeks—a month at the longest—a match would be found.”
The official whose kidney was failing opted not to get a transplant. He lived three more years relying on dialysis and died in 2005.
Another acquaintance, an aide to officials at the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, the core of elite Chinese leadership, told Dr. Zheng something even more shocking.
In the conversation, Dr. Zheng remarked that the persecution of Falun Gong in northeastern China was quite severe.
The acquaintance made no immediate response, but before they parted, he turned and looked straight at Dr. Zheng.
“In Hubei Province’s Wuhan City, under the back garden of the Hubei Province Public Security Bureau, it’s full of detained Falun Gong practitioners. Some are underaged kids,” he said, stopping at every word.
“I’ve been there,” he added after a pause. They didn’t discuss it further, but the implication that this was a mass source of organs weighed heavily on Dr. Zheng.
It marked a new piece of evidence into the forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners.
Dr. Torsten Trey, executive director of the medical ethics group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, said it was an indicator that “the practice was already widespread in China in 2002,” four years before the first investigative report on the subject was published.
“More than 20 years have passed. China’s transplant system has committed medical crimes against humanity that far exceeds anything known in the 21st century. Where is the international response?” Dr. Trey told The Epoch Times in a statement.
Making a Choice..
What the acquaintance said gave Dr. Zheng a “sense of mission” to expose the matter on the international stage, prompting his eventual escape to Thailand in 2005.
He obtained refugee status while in Thailand and moved to Canada in 2007.
In 2015, when he told his story for the first time to The Epoch Times, he said he felt so helpless that he wasn’t sure whether to lean on the reporter or the table.
“I felt that I was giving out my life and everything that I have,” he told The Epoch Times in late July, recalling the previous interview.
“There's no way to describe how I felt at the time,” he said.
“Every word, every sentence I spoke was no different from a choice of life and death. I didn’t know what I’d be bringing to myself.”
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During the eight years once he got to Canada, Dr. Zheng said he had been looking for the right media outlet to tell his story to. Should he make the wrong choice, not only would he get himself into trouble, the issue wouldn't get the spotlight it deserved.
Dr. Trey commended Dr. Zheng's courage in speaking up.
“It is the foundation for us to understand the cruelty and the extent of China’s barbaric transplant practices," Dr. Trey said.
“What Dr. Zheng shared with the public is gruesome beyond words, and there is no explanation for why the international medical community is not acting on China’s horrific organ harvesting. Where is the WMA [World Medical Association]? Where is the WHO [World Health Organization]?”
Dr. Trey encouraged other Chinese doctors to find the courage to come forward.
“Silence is akin to complicity,” he said.
Dr. Zheng said it was unrealistic for him to not worry about possible retaliation from Beijing. "Ordinary people can't imagine how evil the CCP is," he said—but the issue is bigger than himself.
“Slaughtering Chinese people and stealing their organs for profit, this is a crime with no bounds,” Dr. Zheng said. As someone living in a free country with a “basic conscience, I have no reason to stay silent.”
He said that he has carefully preserved his records. When the Chinese Communist Party falls and faces judgment, he will come on the witness stand, he said, adding that he has no doubt “justice will prevail over evil.”
Chicom organ harvesting of live political prisoners has long been known- and ignored. People who need organs go on “medical holidays” to buy the kidneys, livers, hearts, etc they need from the Chicoms and have them transplanted.
Its utterly disgraceful yet no one dare insults the Chicoms
NEWSOM supported & gave tax breaks & grants to the Chinese Bio-Labs in Calif in Fresno & Reedley.
When Rush Limbaugh had a topic about Chinese organ sales from abducted victims he said the Chinese underground guaranteed the fresh organs you bought would be from a nonsmoker.
“Now really, have you ever seen a Chinese person who didn’t smoke?”
For the CCP dictatorship the only morality is whatever the dictatorship has the will to do, period, and nothing is unjustified as long as it serves the CCP’s will.
Some Chinese ‘elite’ benefited from the theft of an innocent man’s life.
Articles like this might give our corrupt ‘elties’ ideas... I’m sure our ‘elites’ could rationalize this kind of horror just like they rationalize everything else they do.
The Chinese government doesn’t care at all for the value of human life.
Despicable.
“You ever notice there’s no Chinese guys named ‘Rusty’?” - George Carlin
How did they find a matching donor? Is there a big database on everybody? When they need a kidney they just run the program, and the one who matches is forced into submission?
Wait till they start using AI to do the matching.
Really glad that scum BFF of Bill Clinton is in prison for cutting out organs from Serb POWs while they were alive.
Hope Ukraine can get this to end there, so many children.
China may always be in this. They just don’t seem to recognize cruelty. They boil and blowtorch enough stolen pets alive.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54822789
What are the proles for if it is not to be useful as a spare parts bin the elites? Otherwise, why have them wasting oxygen?
Ha.
Always good to carry on the memories of George Carlin.
He didn’t know about all those Chinese mummies at the time.
And we just kept trading with them faster and faster while all this was going on (prosecution and genocide of the Falun Gong and Uighurs).
We actually increased our trading not long after the Tienamen sq massacre in 1989–after a tiny dip.
It’s not surprising Doctors from this evil regime would GE a new virus and release it on the word.
By “we” of course I mean the deep state coalition of Dems and neocons politicians we amazingly elected.
Coming to a country near you. The Deep State never sleeps.
I thought the article was about the well known Ukrainian organ trade. Business is good there.
Horrible. Prayers up.
"It puts the lotion on!"
If Boxer or McConnell need a liver, yo’ gonna give up yo’ liver.
China now has the same political system as Nazi Germany.
Imagine if FDR and his son had been on the German payroll in the late 1930s and the press covered it up.
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